We have Glucagon we can give IM or SQ if a pt is unconscious with a low blood sugar and no IV site. We also have the gel for an alert pt with no IV access. The nice thing about all this is that we have the protocol to treat the low blood sugar with a...
Eeeeek! Thinking about that really creeped me out! Sounds like something from a horror movie. I think I would want to be cremated and turned into a reef ball to help rebuild coral.
We have an empty unit in our hospital currently. It still has supplies on it, so we go up there occasionally (actually daily) to snag some when we are out of something, especially on nights. One nurse went a-borrowing up there and saw a call-light on...
yesterday I had a dream that I was planning to call in due to a migraine but couldn't seem to get my cell phone dialed to the hospital's staffing office, or the supervisor's number
grace90 replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Relations
Would you quit being such a #$%&@ to everyone who comes within 5 feet of your mother's room? Every single @#$% time she's admitted you have to make a complete #$% of yourself by being so demanding and rude and downright impossible and mean. If ...
you know you're a nurse when you watch a battle scene in a narnia video and when one of the brothers gets stabbed:cry:, you immediately start doing a mental ABC on him, and in a scene a little later when he's on the ground gasping with rapid shallow ...
grace90 replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Relations
That's the million dollar question that I am so sick of answering. Or rather, trying to explain to patients and family members that I don't know exactly what time doctors make their rounds, or what patients they see first. It's as if I carry a crysta...
baloney kaka is what it sounds like, crap right out of a bull's #$%! what the heck? I wonder how many staff will quit now. Mad cuz she didn't get tpa? Hello! It was a TIA! Sounds like the only neurological deficit she has is a major lack of common ...